Wow! Wow!! You guys rule! What a response to Round 1! Your support yesterday was phenomenal!!
722 page views – All in WDW’s second-biggest day ever! 3,064 total votes registered!! And, we even saw three new countries visit the site … just to vote! Can we do it again?
The choices get harder in Round 2, folks. We’re down to …
… 20 remaining attractions with five groups left. Just like last time, the Top 2 attractions in each group will move into the next round – the Top 10. Vote! Vote! Vote! Can you top yesterday?
Two points:
1. It would be nice if you offered some commentary on how the voting has been going — e.g., where there were surprises, where there were close races, where there was complete dominance by one attraction. Especially if you then tied the commentary to the perception of the different rides in the park. I know it would take more work but it would make this exercise more interesting and also memorable.
2. Your poll #4 is just not fair! 🙂 To put tiki, small world, haunted mansion, and electrical parade all against one another? You’re going to do an early force out of some otherwise very strong contenders for the top spot by doing that. I suspect the overall winner will come from this group.
Hi, Budwick. Thanks for the feedback! First, yes, the amount of commentary offered was only limited by time available. I wanted to get Round 2 out there for you all!
As to the groups, I tried to be as fair as I could in constructing them. First, there are two 1st place finishers and two 2nd place finishers from Round 1 in each of Round 2’s groups. To seed them, since each group had to have two #1’s, I took the five highest vote-getters from Round 1 (Space Mountain, Big Thunder, Wishes, Mansion, and Jungle Cruise) and called them the “top seeds” for the Round 2 groups. Then, I sprinkled the remaining #1’s and #2’s the best I could and tried to make sure no attraction was facing an attraction they faced in Round 1. Was pretty hard to organize.
As for Group #4, Mansion was the highest vote-getter in Round 1 (266 votes). Small World was the lowest scoring #1 (130) and Electrical and Tiki didn’t even win their Round 1 match-ups. I feel it’s a pretty fair group. Having said that, I agree with you — it’s very possible that Mansion wins it all!
Yes, this was definitely harder than yesterday’s. But I perservere! I will be so proud of HM if it wins 😀 I am continually floored by the amount of love that TTAPM gets. Not because I don’t like it (I love it too!) but because it’s just… so simple, yet there it is, doing reasonably well in a no-holds-barred contest! Everyone loves TTA. 😀